Mamie Van Doren Quotes

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.

I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

I used to be quite laid back and that. But obviously the more you're in the public eye, the more you've got to... dress to impress.

If Cole and I are together, we're noticeable. Fan encounters come with the job, and you can't shy away from them.

I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.

Big movies are fun and it's great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures. That part's wonderful. But, I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid - I clean the house.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

I've never been "celeb-y" actor. You know, you don't catch me falling out of nightclubs at three o'clock in the morning. Well, very rarely! But I find it all a bit baffling, the whole celeb thing and I don't really get it.

I haven't yet figured out how to be a celebrity; that's something I'm learning, and I wish there were a course on how to handle it. I have to be aware that my kinesphere may be larger than I want it to be.

People tend to think that if someone is a movie star, that automatically everything is easier and there is less pressure. But all of them still keep that pressure on, are still inspired and still care about the work.